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Worthenia

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Superfamily
  
Trochonematoidea

Rank
  
Genus

Class
  
Gastropoda

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Kingdom
  
Animalia

Worthenia Gast Paleozoic

Family
  
Lophospiridae; Kues & Batten, 2001

Genus
  
Worthenia; de Koninck, 1883

Similar
  
Juresania, Platyceras, Composita, Heliophyllum, Pentremites

Worthenia is a genus of fossil sea snails, an extinct marine gastropod genus found in the fossil record. This genus is primarily found in rocks formed during the Devonian to Triassic periods (416 million to 200 million years ago) from the central areas of North America. Worthenia was named for the paleontologist Amos Henry Worthen who lived 1813 - 1888.

Worthenia Gast Paleozoic

Worthenia species have a "turban-shaped shell in which a raised ridge follows the margin of the whorls. Small nodes occur along the ridge, and the opening of the shell is oval and large."

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References

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